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Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Conv...

Galonnier, Juliette.

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Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States./
作者:	Galonnier, Juliette.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	892 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-03A(E).
標題:	Sociology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10289509
ISBN:	9780355295573

Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States.
Galonnier, Juliette.

Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 892 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2017.

This dissertation is about race and religion. These two categories are crucial to how people classify others and position themselves in the world. While scholars typically understand them separately, my research proposes instead to explore instances in which they are conflated. Specifically, I track occurrences of racial reasoning in relation to the religion of Islam in Western societies. Empirically, I focus on conversion to Islam to disentangle the intricacies of race and religion. Because conversion implies crossing religious boundaries, converts shed light on the nature and content of such boundaries, and enable us to decide whether they are simply religious or also embody racial difference. The case of white converts is particularly interesting in this respect: because their conversion implies transitioning from one social status (majority) to another (minority), they offer a near-experimental case to investigate how racial categorization operates. Methodologically, I combine the meticulousness of qualitative methods with the bird's eye view of comparatism. Using in-depth interviewing with 82 converts in France and the United States; ethnographic observations in convert associations in Paris and Chicago; and content analysis of media and historical documents, I compare the past and present experiences of French and American Muslim converts to answer the following: how and when is conversion to Islam interpreted in terms of changing one's racial status rather than a mere change in religious orientation?

ISBN: 9780355295573Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

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